That was nice. Strong play all around.
Blowout. Boom.
Just be you. You is enough. - K, 4/5/10, 0:13.8 to play, 60-59 Duke.
You're all jealous hypocrites. - Titus on Laettner
You see those guys? Animals. They're animals. - SIU Coach Chris Lowery, on Duke
That was nice. Strong play all around.
I think this game was good for everyone here as well as the team. Should make things a bit happier around here for a little bit at least.
Wonder what negatives we can find though.
Hokies had 0% chance in this one. #1 they are a bad basketball team. #2 Duke came out focused and with an edge after the Maryland loss. Total domination and solid performances by just about everyone tonight.
Let's check the "replacement players." Looks like Hairston, Murphy and Jefferson combined for 23 points and nine rebounds. Great playing, guys!
Now that the subs are adequately filling the gap, it MUST be time for Ryan to return.
sagegrouse
1) Obvious improvement in our energy level, facilitated by a few days off. Mason in particular looked refreshed.
2) Great to see us play hard for 40 minutes, even though the outcome was not in doubt after the first 15. We hear all the time about playing to a standard rather than the score, but often that's just talk - tonight it actually happened, which is awesome.
3) Don't get too excited about how good we looked tonight. Virginia Tech is the worst team in the ACC, and they had a terrible night from 3 (even for them) while we couldn't miss. We should (hopefully) win easily against Boston College at home this weekend too. Don't believe the hype.
Just what the Doc ordered, also glad to hear that Ryan is off crutches and running in the pool.
Everything is a disaster!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Until we win a game by 32.
This team won't advance past [NCAAT round X] for sure!
I need to lie down, y'all.
Remind me, is Mason "exposed" or not?
A movie is not about what it's about; it's about how it's about it.
---Roger Ebert
Some questions cannot be answered
Who’s gonna bury who
We need a love like Johnny, Johnny and June
---Over the Rhine
Strong!!!!!!!!!
Nice to see the good shooting, good defense, and good effort through the lineup.
Josh had another strong game with 11 points on 4-6 from the field and 3-4 from the line.
Also good to see how he did in the all-important category of...number of times I yelled at him from the couch -- 0.
Loved that little baseline lay-up and one from Alex late in the game.
Nice momentum for the team heading into late Feb. and March.
I will believe the hype. Duke is a very good basketball team when they are playing their game. Whether they show up or whether the other team executes a great gameplan to take them out of their game is another thing but the talent of this team is at a high level and they can beat anybody out there. They destroyed a team that all of NCSU, UNC, and Miami (the greatest team ever) struggled with (BTW, Miami also struggled with Boston College).
Sure it was garbage time, but nice showing at the end of the game. 8 points in 3 minutes -- scoring three different ways.
Obviously, VT is not great, BUT...they did only lose to Miami by 9 at home AND took BOTH UNC and NC State to OT on each of those team's home courts. So...clearly they are capable of playing better than they did tonight. I'll take a 32 point road win this year in conference play all day everyday - and twice on Sunday!
Very solid game by Mason, Seth and Rasheed. We held Green a little below his average, too. The only Devil who seemed to have a sub par game was Quinn, but of course, he was limited by those 3 early fouls.
And I know basketball is a lot about matchups, but Josh showed me some things tonight! I hope we're seeing his emergence to a new level and that his trajectory from here on up will be solidly upward!